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I had been planning a garden-type soap and so I made some soap dough flowers and roses To place on top. The flowers have cured HARD. Mindlessly I made my loaf and then started placing the flowers Willy Nilly on top without looking at my notes. (Pics attached). I set the batch aside and went to...

I normally make cold process soap and have tried goat milk only a handful of times. However, what are the thoughts on horse milk soap?? We breed standardbred horses so I do have access to horse milk, but I’m not sure how it would be accepted in general. Any thoughts or experience with this?

So I'm feeling very NOOB-ish as I did something dumb last night with my lye water. I only make small batches for some gnome soaps (custom order for a wedding) so I have little containers to make the lye water in. I measure the distilled water into a container and then add the lye - I do this...

I have been trying to figure out mica dosages. Labels usually say 1-2 tsp of mica per pound of soap; my question is, do they count that as the full batch or just when you split the batch for the colours. Like if I have a 3 pound batch of soap and measure it off into 2 sub-colours, is it the...

Hello So I thought I was being clever making some solid dishsoap last night. I used 95% coconut oil and 5% castor oil. I added sugar to my water before the lye because I find it makes a nice lather. I then plugged it into the soap calc and it wasn't until today I realized I had it at 5%...

Hello fellow soapers, I have been asked to come up with a soap for our horses. I know that the PH of their skin is approximately 7 - 7.4. So my question is do you think that a cold process soap's PH can be lowered enough for safe use for my herd. I also have access to horse milk (we breed...

Hello, I just had a question regarding packaging of goatmilk soap. I have read somewhere that you shouldn't package goatmilk soap in plastic only something that breathes? If so, what is the reasoning for this? Does it go rancid or moldy? I have looked on this forum and can't seem to find...